Custom AI coding harnesses: two camps and why one dev calls the second hype
0pet · reddit · 2026-09-21
The author splits AI-for-coding practitioners into two camps: those using existing harnesses like Codex with adequate tools, MCPs and a well-tuned AGENTS.md (relying on CI/CD for the rest), and those building custom orchestrator/tester/reviewer pipelines. The author is firmly in camp one and thinks camp two is mostly hype-driven.
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